1. Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Enterprise for the 21st Century Initiative Assessment & Reporting in Enterprise Education Resources
An Enterprise for the 21st Century Initiative

2. Professional Learning Information
Enterprise Education Quality Framework
Enterprise Education Quality Framework
Assessment
& Reporting
Enterprise
Education
Resources CD
Assessing & Reporting
the Enterprise Skills
The Enterprise
Skills Posters & Story
Professional Learning Information
Project Background & Summary of Stage 1 Findings – PowerPoint Presentation
Enterprise Education Quality Framework Introduction – PowerPoint Presentation
Assessing & Reporting the Enterprise Skills Introduction – PowerPoint Presentation
Enterprise Skills Portfolio Introduction – PowerPoint Presentation
Reports and Background Materials
Assessment & Reporting in Enterprise Education Stage 1 Report
EEAR Final Report
EESFD Final Report
The Enterprise education Monograph Series
Skills Portfolio

3. Enterprise Education Quality Framework

4. Enterprise Education Quality Framework
Designed to enable students, teachers and school leaders to better understand, plan for, and participant in an explicit and purposeful process for assessment and reporting in enterprise education

5. Enterprise Education Quality Framework
The complete set comprises:
Education Quality Framework: Reviewing Your School
Education Quality Framework: Reviewing Your Class Culture
Assessment and Reporting
of Enterprise Skills

6. Reviewing Your School
has been designed to support school staff to review and assess the enterprise culture in their school.
It comprises information to support schools to deliver enterprise education, tools to assess the enterprise culture of schools, and an action planning process to assist schools to plan whole school strategies for enterprise education.

7. Reviewing Your Class Culture
has been designed to provide an assessment tool for teachers to examine the enterprise learning skills of their class or individual students.
and provide information for discussion to identify possible strengths and weaknesses, and areas to be addressed.

8. Assessment and Reporting of Enterprise Skills
promotes understanding of the purpose of assessment and reporting in enterprise education
identifies the ways students demonstrate enterprise learning
and presents ideas to support students and teachers to assess and report the enterprise skills

9. Overall
Together the resources are intended to enable students, teachers and school leaders to better understand, plan for, and participant in an explicit and purposeful process for assessment and reporting in enterprise education.

10. Built on understanding enterprise education
Definition
Skill or attributes
Focus
Enterprise education
Enterprise education is learning directed towards developing in young people those skills, competencies, understandings, and attributes which equip them to be innovative, and to identify, create, initiate, and successfully manage personal, community, business, and work opportunities, including working for themselves.
Enterprise Attributes:
Using initiative and drive
Being creative and innovative
Being positive and flexible
Making decisions and solving problems
Planning and organising
Communicating and negotiating
Managing resources and people
Working cooperatively
Reviewing and assessing
Authentic learning
Student decision making
Community building
Career education
Career education is concerned with the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes through a planned programme of learning experiences in education and training settings which will assist students to make informed decisions about their life, study and/or work options and enable effective participation in working life.
Employability Skills:
Communication;
Team work
Problem-solving
Initiative and enterprise
Self-management
Learning skills
Technology skills
Career knowledge and choices
Employability skills
Further education and training
Transition from school
Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial education develops in the student skills in personal finance, decision making and creative thinking.
Enterprising individuals have direction and the determination to make the most of challenging circumstances. Entrepreneurial education is focused on the individual and their potential to achieve.
Business and Entrepreneur Skills:
Market competition
Business organisation
Budgeting
Financial planning
Promotions and marketing
Money making
Business skills
Entrepreneurial activities

11. Reviewing Your School Summary
Describes the key qualities of an enterprising school
Enables a review of the enterprise culture of the school
EEQF: Reviewing Your School

12. Built on the Best Practice Principles for Enterprise Education
In an enterprise school a culture of enterprise learning is embedded within the culture of the school.
The Best Practice Principles are the foundations of the Key Qualities of an Enterprise School Culture

13. Dimension 3: Key Qualities of Enterprise Learning
Key Qualities of an Enterprise Culture 1 2 3 4
Enterprise education is developed as a whole school approach, and enterprise learning is integrated into all learning areas.
Learning
Enterprise education across the school enables all students to learn and demonstrate the qualities and characteristics of an enterprising person.
Students know and speak the language of enterprise education.
The school explicitly supports authentic learning contexts in which students have opportunities to build their personal capacities and contribute to community building.
Enterprise learning opportunities are systematically provided in all learning areas.
Students’ enterprise skills and achievements are explicitly recognised and acknowledged as part of a whole school approach to enterprise education.
The school leadership encourages and supports students to be innovative and enterprising.
OVERALL SCORE FOR THIS DIMENSION

14. Assessing your school summary
Dimension
Score
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Leadership & organisation
Low level commitment or support from school leaders. Individual staff may feel unsupported or their efforts unrecognised and unappreciated.
School leaders have provided some support and recognition for teachers’ efforts in enterprise education, but there is a lack of overall focus and direction.
School leaders have consulted with staff and developed a whole school approach. Elements of the plan, such as further professional development, may still need to be implemented.
School leaders are highly committed and provide strong, explicit and ongoing support at all levels.
Teaching
Teachers have only minimal understanding of and commitment to enterprise education among staff.
There is only a low level of overall commitment to enterprise education, perhaps with some individual teachers more fully committed.
There is a strong commitment by most teachers to enterprise teaching and learning.
All teachers have the knowledge, skills and commitment to support the whole school focus on the development of students’ enterprise skills.
Learning
Opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate enterprise skills are limited.
There is some time given to providing enterprise learning contexts, but overall students do not effectively use the language of enterprise education, or demonstrate enterprise skills.
Students have the opportunities to develop and demonstrate enterprise skills in most classes and contexts.
All students across the school have opportunities to develop and demonstrate enterprise skills. Students share the language of enterprise education, and demonstrate enterprise skills in all contexts.
Assessment
There is little acknowledging and rewarding students’ enterprise skills or achievements, and little understanding by staff of the need to do so.
There is only a low level of overall commitment to the acknowledgement and rewarding of students’ enterprise skills, perhaps with some individual teachers more fully committed.
There is a strong commitment by most teachers and schools leaders to the acknowledgement and rewarding of students’ enterprise learning.
The school provides regular and systematic opportunities for acknowledging and rewarding students’ achievements in enterprise education. All teachers have the skills and knowledge to assess, analyse and report students’ enterprise learning.

15. Charting your results Dimension Score Leadership & organisation 2.5
Teaching
1.5
Learning 3
Assessment
Parents
2.0
Community
1.0
Sustainability
0.5 1
1.5 2
2.5 3
Leadership &
organisation
Teaching
Learning
Assessment
Parents
Community
Sustainability

16. Action Plan Template Objectives Outcomes Process
What do you want to do and how will you do it?
Outcomes
What will be achieved?
Process
What strategies will be used?
Performance Indicators
Describe your performance indicators?
Resource Implications
What resources are required?
Responsibility
Who has the responsibility to make it happen?
Timeframe
What are your milestones?
Enterprise Education Professional Development
Enterprise Teaching & Learning
Enterprise Education in the Curriculum
Enterprise Learning Assessment & Reporting
Parent & Community Partnerships

17. Reviewing Your Class Culture Summary
The quality of the learning experience is the essence of enterprise education
Teaching and learning in enterprise education is based on the enterprise attributes
EEQF: Reviewing Your Class Culture

18. Reviewing Your Class Culture
Key quality indicators are presented for each of the attributes or enterprise skills.
The key quality indicators can be used to assess the current state of enterprise teaching and learning in the classroom.

19. Key Qualities: Communicating and negotiating
Attribute
Key Qualities of Enterprise Learning 1 2 3 4 6
Students communicate effectively with others in enterprise learning situations.
Communicating
Students use persuasion effectively to make an argument or present a viewpoint.
and negotiating
Students listen actively to others to determine their views and arguments.
Students share ideas and understandings with others.
Students adapt communication strategies for different contexts.
Students present ideas and information effectively in various contexts.
Students deal with conflict in group situations and negotiate solutions.
OVERALL SCORE FOR THIS ATTRIBUTE

20. Reviewing your class culture summary
Enterprise Attributes
Class/
Student
Score
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Using initiative and drive
Students lack initiative and drive in enterprise learning situations
Students only show initiative with support, and require assistance to complete tasks.
Student take initiative at times, but may not always follow through to completion.
Students always take the initiative in enterprise learning situations; have the drive and commitment to complete enterprise tasks.
Being creative and innovative
Students do not demonstrate creative or innovative thinking in enterprise learning situations.
Students demonstrate creative or innovative thinking within a supportive framework.
Students effectively use creative and innovative strategies.
Students employ highly creative and innovative approaches to thinking and learning.
Being positive and flexible
Students are seldom positive in learning situations, and do not easily adapt to new contexts.
Students are positive at times, but require support to maintain a positive approach to learning and to adapt to new situations.
Students are positive and usually adapts to new learning contexts.
Students are very positive and adaptable in learning situations.
Making decisions and solving problems
Students lack effective decision making and problem solving skills.
Students demonstrate decision making and problem solving skills when supported.
Students show effective decision making and problem solving skills in most situations.
Students display highly developed decision making and problem solving skills.

21. Assessment and Reporting of Enterprise Skills Summary

22. Assessment and Reporting of Enterprise Skills Summary
Promote understanding of the purpose of assessment and reporting in enterprise education
Identify the ways students demonstrate enterprise learning
Present ideas to support students and teachers to assess and report the enterprise skills

23. Incorporates
the definition and description of the enterprise attributes
how the enterprise skills are developed and demonstrated
how information about a student’s enterprise skills is collected and recorded
processes for the assessment and recording of the enterprise skills.

24. Enterprise Skills Assessment
1. Sharing the language of enterprise education
2. Enterprise Skills Discovery Activity
3. Enterprise Skills Assessment
4. Describing the Enterprise Attributes
5. Demonstrating Enterprise Skills across Learning Areas

25. Enterprise Skills Assessment
6. Describing Your Enterprise Skills
7. Documenting Your Enterprise Skills
8. Enterprise Skills Record
9. Student Enterprise Profile
10. Models for Reporting Enterprise Skills

26. Promoting Enterprise Learning
This framework recognises and underlines the importance of enterprise education as a key component in the education of young people.
It provides a process for schools to plan for improvement in the delivery and assessment of their enterprise education approaches.